A 115-year-old Spaniard born in the United States could become humanity’s new elder, a Guinness World Records consultant said this Wednesday following the death of sister André at the age of 118.
Maria Branas Morera lived for 20 years in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in Olot, Catalonia, in northeast Spain.
Guinness World Records Senior Gerontology Consultant Robert D. Young said it is “probable” that Morera is humanity’s new doyen but still confirms the information, he explained in a statement to France-Presse. Agency (AFP).
The nursing home where the Spaniard is staying has already announced that it will be hosting a “little party” behind closed doors in the coming days to “celebrate this special occasion.”
“She is in good health and is surprised and grateful for the interest shown,” the post read.
Guinness is expected to make a formal decision after examining documents and interviewing Morera’s family, added Young, who is also director of the Gerontology Research Group’s super-hundreds research database.
Maria Branas Morera survived the 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, two world wars, and the Spanish Civil War.
The centennial’s youngest daughter, Rosa Moret, 78, praised her mother for her good health, which she said was due to “genetics.”
“She never went to the hospital, she didn’t break anything,” said Rosa Moret in an interview with regional Catalan television this Wednesday.
Morera was born in San Francisco, in the Western United States, on March 4, 1907, shortly after his Spanish family moved to the United States from Mexico.
Mary’s family then moved to New Orleans in the southern United States in 1910 before returning to Spain in 1915. In 1931 she married a doctor who died at the age of 72.
He had three children, one of whom died, 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
French nun Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, who has been humanity’s elder since April 2022, passed away early Monday through Tuesday at her nursing home in Toulon, southern France.
No official institution confers titles like dean, but experts agreed that Sister Andrew was the oldest living person to have had a verified service record.
The Guinness Book of Records also recorded this record on April 25, after the death at the age of 119 of the Japanese Kane Tanaka.
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